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The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, are still relatively unknown today. The reason for this can be...

Spohr's reputation as a violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and instrumental teacher was outstanding in the early Romantic period. "Die letzten Dinge" is considered the most important of his four ora...

This is the best of me, wrote Edward Elgar after the final bar of his "Dream of Gerontius". First performed in 1900, the work has long been one of the standard works of great oratorio choruses in Grea...

Garcia, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1767, a priest and bandmaster at the cathedral there, is still little known. His mostly sacred works include four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present "Miss...

With its magnificent, almost operatic music, the Passion oratorio "Christus am Ölberge" is a different Passion oratorio that is definitely worth hearing and experiencing - and is undoubtedly unique in...

This Missa solemnis in C major (before 1764) is recommended for performance to all those who would like to get to know Leopold Mozart not only as the composer of a musical sleigh ride and author of a...

With a musically convincing and in many respects highly original interpretation of the liturgical text, Herzogenberg's mass represents a final highlight in the late Romantic repertoire of the "Missa s...

Józef Swider, a native of Poland, has written more than 250 compositions for choirs, which enjoy great popularity. Today he is considered the most frequently performed Polish composer. His richly orch...

Nicolai's only surviving mass is one of his most important contributions to church music. It is characterized by its varied structure and good singing quality. It therefore offers many choirs a real a...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

Giacomo Carissimi, the first grand master of the oratorio and author of numerous concertante motets and Italian bel canto solo cantatas, also composed several masses. The Missa concertata in C for 2 t...

Following the great success of his "Magnificat", the internationally sought-after pop and jazz choir composer Christoph Schönherr has presented another work for Carus with his MISSA in tempore incerto...

Mozart and Haydn greatly appreciated the church music of their friend and Viennese court conductor Joseph Eybler. The Missa Sancti Alberti with its lyrical, pastoral tone stands in contrast to his mas...

Eberlin's programmatic setting of the offertory "Terra tremuit" was composed for the festive liturgy of Easter Sunday at Salzburg Cathedral, which was a center of polyphonic offertory settings in the...

Giuseppe Verdi's Te Deum for double choir and large orchestra is the most frequently performed part of his Quattro pezzi sacri and his penultimate work, composed in 1895/1896. Verdi dealt intensively...

Among the sacred compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun, the long-serving court conductor of Frederick II in Berlin, two works have acquired a prominent status: the passion cantata Der Tod Jesu from 1755...

Bobbi Fischer's "Magnificat" builds a musical bridge between Europe and South America. His setting of Mary's song of praise from the Gospel of Luke draws on the abundance of Afro-Caribbean rhythms. We...

The Stabat Mater is Giuseppe Verdi's last work. The composer completed it in 1897 at the age of 84. A year later, the Stabat Mater appeared in print together with the slightly older Te Deum as part of...

The Requiem in F minor op. 146 is one of Franz Lachner's most important works. The composer, who lived in Vienna for a long time, developed into a "classicist romantic" there, merging classical form,...

Among Verdi's numerous compositions, the Messa da Requiem remains unique as a work of sacred music. It was composed as a musical memorial to the Italian national poet Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi de...

The Berlin choirmaster and music teacher Michael Betzner-Brandt is known as a particularly creative mind in the choral scene - for example through his "I can't sing" choirs. In order to be able to sin...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work was already a success with the public during the composer's lifetime and remains so to this day. Due to...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber's Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive settings of the requiem mass of the 17th century. The specific occasion for the composition of t...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...